Geospatial Engineer

Virtual Intelligence Solutions Limited is seeking an experienced Geospatial Engineer to help develop the geospatial intelligence layer of a transportation platform. The platform coordinates passengers and moving vehicles across defined transportation routes. The Geospatial Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing these systems

Job descriptions & requirements
Responsibilities:

Route & Geospatial Architecture:

Design the platform’s geospatial architecture using PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
Convert transportation routes into accurate digital route geometries and service corridors.
Develop geofencing and route-validation functionality.
Determine whether passenger pickup and destination locations can be served by particular routes.
Identify overlapping routes and route intersections.
Develop efficient spatial indexing and querying strategies.

GPS & Vehicle Tracking:

Process real-time GPS data from moving vehicles.
Develop methods for handling inaccurate, noisy or drifting GPS coordinates.
Implement map matching to determine the road/route on which a vehicle is actually travelling.
Determine vehicle direction and route progression.
Develop vehicle-on-route/off-route detection.
Support real-time vehicle-location services.

Routing & Pickup Optimization:

Integrate and/or develop road-network routing capabilities.
Calculate road-based distance and travel time rather than relying solely on straight-line distance.
Determine suitable passenger pickup/drop-off points.
Calculate permissible route deviations.
Support intelligent passenger-to-vehicle matching.
Work with routing technologies such as OSRM, Valhalla, GraphHopper or equivalent.

APIs & Backend Integration:

Develop or support geospatial REST APIs.
Integrate geospatial services with the existing application backend.
Optimize PostGIS queries for real-time operation.
Work with developers responsible for the driver and passenger applications.
Design geospatial services capable of scaling as vehicle and passenger volumes increase.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following, or equivalent professional experience:
A minimum of 3–5 years of professional geospatial software engineering experience.
Computer Science, Software Engineering, Geoinformatics
Geomatics, Geographic Information Systems
Surveying/Geospatial Engineering, Transportation Engineering
Geography with significant software-development experience

Required Skills

Strong practical experience with:

PostgreSQL/PostGIS
Python
Spatial SQL
GeoPandas
Shapely
GDAL/PROJ
OpenStreetMap
Mapbox and/or Google Maps Platform
Geofencing
Spatial indexing
Coordinate systems and projections
GPS/trajectory data
REST APIs
Road-network data

Candidates should also understand:

Map matching
Network topology
Routing algorithms
Nearest-neighbour spatial searches
Point-to-line and point-in-polygon calculations
Route buffers/corridors
Vehicle heading/direction calculations
High-frequency location data

Highly Desirable

Experience with one or more of the following:

OpenStreetMap routing
GeoServer
GeoDjango
FastAPI
Docker
WebSockets/event-driven location systems

Data Science & ML Collaboration

Work closely with our Data Scientist/ML specialist on:

Passenger-demand analysis
Supply/demand heat maps
Demand forecasting
ETA modelling
Vehicle utilization
Driver positioning
Passenger/vehicle matching
Route-performance analytics
Future optimization models